painted wall – Page 2 – Paddy Duffy Collection

Lily Of The Rift Valley

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A pair of wooden lilies – symbol of the 1916 Easter Rising – are painted in the colours of the Palestinian flag and are placed below Palestinian flags on the Greater Ballymurphy memorial garden. (For the the names on the plaque, see the Peter Moloney Collection.)

The electrical boxes (below) are from the community mural at the bottom of Springhill. The imagery on the second one is by Emmalene Blake – see Seas Leıs An Phalaıstín.

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Pobal ⁊ Óıge

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Here are five images of electrical boxes along the Whiterock Road in west Belfast, featuring various GAA and youth organisations: (from top to bottom) O’Donnell’s GAC (Fb), Glór Na Móna – Pobal ⁊ Óıge (web), Corpus Christi Youth Centre (Fb), Naomh Eoın CLG (web)

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The Green And Lovely Lakes

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Killeshandra, County Cavan, is located near the Lough Oughter system of lakes, which is home to a wide variety of fish, including the roach, tench, perch, bream, and pike (Island View Cavan pdf) featured in this Rob Hilken (web) piece in the centre of town.

With funding from Cavan Community Council (web).

Main Street, Killeshandra

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UVF 3rd Battalion Armagh

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“The Tandragee company of the Ulster Volunteer Force were formed in 1913 as part of the wider Ulster fight against Home Rule. Tandragee ‘B’ Company where [were] part of the third battalion of the County Armagh Regiment UVF with headquarters in Tandragee Castle. Upon the outbreak of the Great War many of the Tandragee Volunteers joined the 9th Service Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers of the 36th (Ulster) Division.”

The 9th battalion comprised volunteers from Armagh, Monaghan, and Cavan.

For a fuller version of the photograph, see Cyberprod.

Montague Street, Tandragee

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Cıll Na Leıce

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Kilnaleck local Frank Brook built the cart that he wheeled daily to the creamery. For more information about Frank, see this profile at AngloCelt of the artist, Colette Kearney (web).

The other piece is on the side wall of (what was) the Copper Kettle.

Upper Main Street, Kilnaleck, County Cavan

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Ard Mhacha Abú

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Here is another (see previously: Armagh For Sam) mural supporting Armagh’s senior football team, presumably in connection with its successful 2024 campaign, this time in Newry.

Irelantis

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Seán Hillen’s (web) collage “The Great Pyramids of Carlingford Lough“, from his 1994-1997 series “Irelantis”, is reproduced in Newry by DMC (ig). Hillen explains the sources for the image in an instagram post.

Upper Water Street, Newry. Also included below are two electrical boxes, the first, “Hope”, presumably by Zippy (web), in Kildare Street; the squirrel is in Merchants’ Quay.

Band Width

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This entry updates 2025’s C’Mon On In, which showed the low wall with local landmarks. The new pieces on the adjacent wall, the six bollards and three pillars, have a musical theme. The wall to the side depicts a sea-horse and a wolf (from the Belfast coat of arms – see The Sea Walls) among soccer-playing lions against a backdrop of flax flowers.

As before, Carla Hodgson (ig) worked with local children to produce the art (Belfast Live).

Maryville Street, south Belfast